Syracuse Updates - in Joke form by Rich Tucker

12/8/2024

Syracuse, Pitt, and Boston College left the Big East Conference that they had founded (to strengthen their basketball) to play in the ACC because of its supposed strength in football. It turns out there isn't much strength there. The league commish is now begging the playoff committee to add Miami to the playoff bracket, and the committee is saying, "Nah." The only team that will make it is Clemson, which will be a 12-seed. SMU, which has been in the ACC for less than six months and presumably brought its strength with it rather than gaining strength by playing ACC games, got dumped in the "ACC Championship game."

As for basketball, the ACC was once great at that (as was the Big East when Syracuse was a founding member.) The expanded ACC just went 2-14 (not a typo: 2-14) in two days of games against the SEC. We already knew the SEC was better at football, and it is also better at hoops. So. The new, continent-spanning ACC features weak football and weak basketball. 

Remind us again about the upside of the Orange flying to Berkley, California? We've forgotten...  

12/5/2024

J.J. Starling decided he wanted to spend more time in Syracuse for some reason, so he came home to play for the Orange. But this weekend, he can show his teammates around South Bend, where he spent his freshman year. Then, we hope, he can lead the Orange to its first ACC win.

11/28/2024

The Orange Men do not have basketball down to a "T." Their two losses have come to Texas and Texas Tech and they face a tough Tennessee team this week. On a positive note, win or lose, there are no more teams that start with "T" on the regular season schedule.

11/15/2024

As the Orange head to Brooklyn to face Texas for the second time (we recall that the first was in New Orleans in a National Semifinal in 2003), former Longhorn Royal Ivy (seen on posters everywhere) must be wondering whether Hakim Warrick has landed, yet.

11/12/2024

Orange fans hope the team can pull another upset against powerhouse Colgate, after losing in two of the last three years to the Red Raiders